/usr/bin/what-provides is in what-utils 1.5-0ubuntu1.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 | #!/bin/sh -e
#
# what-provides - what package provides a binary in your path
#
# Copyright (C) 2010 Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
#
# Authors:
# Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
found=0
for i in "$@"; do
if which "$i" >/dev/null; then
dpkg -S $(readlink -f $(which "$i"))
found=1
else
for j in $(locate "$i"); do
dpkg -S $(readlink -f "$j") || true
found=1
done
fi
done
[ "$found" = "1" ] || exit 1
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